CJA eVoucher AI Billing Tool
for W.D. Mich. Panel Attorneys

The United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan covers the western half of the Lower Peninsula and all of the Upper Peninsula, holding court in Grand Rapids (the primary courthouse), Kalamazoo, Marquette, and Lansing. W.D. Mich. sits within the Sixth Circuit and is one of the most geographically expansive districts in the Midwest — spanning from the Lake Michigan shoreline and Grand Rapids metropolitan area in the south to the remote copper country and iron range communities of the Upper Peninsula bordering Wisconsin and the Straits of Mackinac.

The district's federal criminal docket includes drug trafficking (methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution cases are prominent, particularly in the Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo divisions), firearms offenses, financial fraud, and child exploitation. Marquette handles cases arising from the Upper Peninsula's remote communities, including crimes on federal land in the national forests and crimes committed on Tribal reservations — W.D. Mich. includes several federally recognized tribes including the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. CJA panel attorneys handling U.P. cases often face substantial travel requirements across the Mackinac Bridge or by air. PanelTime™ reads any timesheet format and converts the full record to an eVoucher-ready file automatically.

CJA panel attorneys in W.D. Mich. submit compensation through the national eVoucher platform using CJA-20 vouchers. PanelTime™ is the AI billing tool for western Michigan federal panel attorneys — converting timesheets from Grand Rapids to Marquette to eVoucher-ready files without manual service code entry.